On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> writes: > >> If a package's installed, use >> dpkg -S /path/to/file >> >> If it isn't installed, install apt-file, run "apt-file update", and use: >> apt-file search /path/to/file > > Ok, again talking through my hat. I miss-remembered apt-file as > apt-cache.. So sure was I that it was the one I was after, I didn't > look at notes I took some time ago about how to find the package > belonging to a file. > > I think I might even have know `dpkg -S /path/to/file once upon a > time. > > Thank you sir for banging those commands home. And very handy they are.
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